Word: hermeticism
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I also agree with Marber: the movie's achievement is that "it manages to be realistic and dreamlike simultaneously. We wanted that semi-hallucinogenic atmosphere without seeming fantastic. We wanted it to feel like being in love, which is hermetic. It just keeps out the rest of the world." The...
As in Alias, Abrams sells the ludicrous setup with excellent casting (including Party of Five's Matthew Fox and The Lord of the Rings hobbit Dominic Monaghan), inventive details and sharp comic relief. A desert island is a hermetic setting--not much room for fun Quentin Tarantino cameos there. So...
For one, the initial reaction to the statement that I don’t have TV at home inevitably brings the conversation to an abrupt halt, combined with a dropped jaw or two. People often act offended, as if it’s personally injurious to them that this freak...
“It is a fantasy to suppose that, when you need this much material to make a bomb from,” Carter said, dramatically brandishing the panelists’ pitcher of water, “you can put a hermetic seal around North Korea.?...
In Burma, to the disgust of foreign observers, Aung San Suu Kyi is under detention?a victim of the junta's latest crackdown on her democracy movement. But she and her party have only been cowed, not crushed. In Laos, no political dissent has been allowed in 28 years, nor...